(An excerpt from the original work, Real World Views, Book 6,
In the Light of the Great Philosophical System of Gurdjieff and
Ouspensky: The Journey Beyond
by Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho entitled "On Matter,
Motion, Time and Dimensions", April 1976 - October 1976 Discourse, Chapter
1, Section A, pp.1~6)

CHAPTER 1

On Matter, Motion, Time, Psyche and Dimensions -
A Glimpse of Psyche Hydrogens - Common Cosmic Ansanbaluiazar:
Everything Issuing from Everything and Again Entering into
Everything - Being-God, Vibration and Being-Light - Feeding and
Being-Food - Conscious Shock with Being - Food Known as Impression -
The Laws of Octaves

A.ON MATTER, MOTION, TIME AND
DIMENSIONS

1 Great
Nature bestows in beings a definite grade of psyche and
surely, in its movement itself the very psyche matter is able to see itself
and control itself. This is not easy. As my very peculiar psyche has
initially commenced from the
Malenmao form and remains in it for a very long time until somehow it
transforms into the Gurousp (Gurdjieff-Ouspensky) form. The psychic motion which becomes posited
in my essence and constantly determining its issuing into the exterior
moving center for materialization, of which such movement is also a property
of Great Nature in its perpetual self-creation and alteration.

2
The movement of Great Nature, the one familiar to our vision, may be
interpreted as the issueing of the ray of llife by subtraction of motion. I will not force you to believe that this
visible motion may be issued from the initial starting point of the ray of
life, from the Absolute. By the rapid subtraction of motion and
self-annihilation in its emergence, the Will of the Absolute vibrates the
whole growth of the universe being and body.

3 Great
Nature possesses this very psychic motion which we have always looked upon
it as vibration of fine qualities of psyche matters and we do not know how
many levels of such psyche matters there are in the universe. Each level leads to
different partial reflections according to their reflection properties.
this reflection proceeds from within, from the interior and whose
psyche-issueing permeates throughout the whole universe being. The
being-psyche matter generates its own perception dimensions and through this
dimesnsion it becomes aware of the dimensionality of the universe. Great
Nature sees itself through its own reflection. We see much as our
psychic matters permit us to do so. This reciprocal self-observation
by Great Nature itself has the troublesome barriers of not seeing things
correctly. That is to say, Great Nature's useful portion.
Like us, sometimes, it just lacks such fine psyche matters to see the real
body of Great Nature itself.

4
Without
been told it is difficult to know the psyche centers, i.e. moving,
instinctive, sex, emotional and intellectual centers. It knows no such centers for these centers of issuing
will come only as appearancial reflection, as something interiorly
perceptible.

We
can become conscious of these centers of vibration only after we have become
aware of their issuing and to become aware it must be at least appearancial
and reflectable interiorly or else, we have no means to know them.
Material-reflection is an exposition of self-observation, and for those who
do not make such observation, their crystallization would be faulty.

5
The
psyche octave notes are constantly moving or in movement, and disappear into
one another. The movement can be represented by an enneagram.
The movement is music of the psyche. The notes are the centers and
each of these centers shows consciously or unconsciously in the trialectic
movement of the enneagram. Our being arises as a result of the
operation of these centers. First and foremost the basic note is the
physical note, the foundation of beings and forms the bulk.
Within it, these 7 center must shine themselves constantly, passing over
from one into the other. The laws of three operate through the whole
movement - X arises as active force, Y as passive force and Z as
neutralizing force.

6
Mind phenomenologies
are time-like. They are movements along time dimension. Physical phenomenologies are
space-like. They are movement in space dimensions. The mind may be looked
upon as a time machine, always staying in the present, and traveling into
past and future as a variance of the sensible eternal now, which is
its constant. The mind can also be looked upon as the functions of the
brain. Yet these functions run on something and this something is called
the mind fuels or psyche hydrogen.

7
In the language of dialectical materialism what reincarnation in religious
doctrines may be looked upon as the dialectical movements of the higher
psyche matters, its characteristics how, its quality-quantity transmutations
and leaps of the levels for the coming-to-be of something new. Some of
the psyche matters of lower being level are good foods for higher beings. In the process of perpetual
creation of beings into beings, to wit, that of reciprocal feeding, whether
visible or not, certain higher matters definitely pass into one another.
Seeing depends so much on the presence of the quality of higher psyche
matters in us, the perceptible forms of which we called mind
phenomenologies.

8
The movement of psychical phenomenal
forms and of physical bodies can be repeated, that is, re-posited for
re-issuing. In the first case, it is time-like, and physical space is a
point that is too small with zero activity (in space) but tremendous
activities in time. The psychical body tends to move but in time, across
many lines of ‘super-successions’, one moment this line, next another and
next yet another, etc. That is, there is a fourth dimension that
penetrates into everything subjected to space in the universe. Through its
inter-penetration in space, the object is not destroyed because the psychic
phenomenon does not move in space dimension; it moves in ‘zero-space’
dimension or the fourth axis. It is a multi-dimensional movement in time,
or a many-dimensional-time being moving itself into itself without ever been
warped by space or material beings, but whose center of multi-dimensionality
must be concentrated and posited in space. In other words, mind occupies
space, but the activities of itself cannot be done under calculations;
using space dimensions (zero-physical-distance-activities).

The
nervous system of matter is always one level of being below the ‘mind
level’ ‑ that is why we can distinguish them. In the nervous system,
space becomes more important. In other denser bodies, space dimensionality
is absolutely necessary. The three-dimensional space becomes
distinguishable, and time becomes separable from space. Time appears to be
one dimensional, if you ‘feel’ for it. By observing the mind
phenomenologies, past and present becomes inter-penetrable. Now or
eternal now can be timed slowly; things go in spirals. When we look
at a massive physical body in motion, there is only one line of time
(one-dimensional time) whereas in the previous observation of mind
phenomenologies, time seems multi-dimensional, and not too easy for
certainty calculation. Now in the observation of bodies, which have
space-like properties, as with massive bodies, calculation becomes easy.
Time is separated in our cognition from space and space only exhibits
three-dimensionality. Newtonian classical mechanics arose as a careful
observation on the behavior of massive bodies moving at low speeds.
Theories are developed based on this frame of reference, and it is natural
to view time as a simple one-dimensional independent being which is
irreversible and divisible. Newtonian mechanics investigates the motion of
mechanical bodies. It ‘rested’ its mind on the space like aspect of the
real world with the simple idea of a one-dimensional time separated from
space. In relativity, when ‘observers’ must be taken into consideration,
there is an interest for-time-like phenomenon. Because time, at
knowing-and-seeing level, can be multidimensional. The Newtonian system
is subjected to the limitation of categorical application, not suitable for
certain phenomenon of a time-like reality peculiar to the Einsteinian domain
of fine vibrations.

Motion in fourth dimension is, to a great extent, invisible to a majority of
people. The perpetual change of its co-ordinates, independent of whatever
forms of spatial movement is a property of motion in the fourth dimension.These movements along the fourth dimension may not be ‘extracted’; they are
invisible, but they become visible in conflict, as they emerge into spatial
dimension. When conflict arises in the fourth dimension, we should go
through it, study it, find the reason and root cause of its arising.

9
According
to the science of thermodynamics, everything in nature passes to its final
state by a process called ‘increase of entropy' When this state is reached, further progress
will be impossible and the universe will be dead. Distant nature will be
like the stillness of the grave while the entropy entity would be
continuously exploding like a sun. The
other theory is the proportion of the cyclic universe. Here, when the
universe dies in one place the products of its death are periodically
being used to produce new lives in other places.

The
first theory and the second theory appear contradictory. One postulates a
stop-of-progress, while the other, a continuity or a cycle. But according
to the psychological approach, there is no contradiction. There is no
stop-in-the-progress of the universe but this stop will be a continuity in
another way. Stop is a stage of progress, the continuation of this stop and
‘stillness of the grave’ is the other line of program of the universe. It
merely reflects entering a new level ofbeing of the universe. Entropy is
disorderliness of the ‘world atoms’ dispersed as radiation. Therefore dead
at one end is life at the other end. Radiation is so much transformable for
solidified matter. The becoming of the earth and the possible
transformation into a sun can be verified by a study of entropy of the earth
and by a study of the potentiality for the absent of radiation arising out
of the entropy of our earth. If this is so, the earth will enter a higher
level of being; its radiation could provide ‘lives’ to the moon. The moon
will become a new being called earth.

We
see but only the interconnectedness of all the levels of being-matters
interpenetrating one another. What one ceases to be, others come to be.
The theory of entropy is but one side of the ‘body of an elephant’ studied
by the six blind men. It is a matter of degree of accuracy.

For
those who think dialectically, who do not permit a ‘stop’ to the changes and
motions of the universe, will disagree with the well established
thermodynamic theory of the
ultimate-ceasing-of-all-changes-in-the-universe. That is impossible. The
universe being has “eternal” life.

The
nuisance of the law of creation of waste heat in any change upsets the
harmony of the universe. The waste heat wherever it ‘touches’ on matters,
agitates them, disorganizes their energy to produce more heat and
ultimately, the universe will be entropied to the full. Then every change
will stop; the universe will become a bulk of radiation without
forms; there will be no life, since life will be in possession of a physical
connectedness. Heat can destroy consciousness. The universe becomes heat
devoid of forms. Such is the vision of the entropy of universe. But is
that all! Have we really discovered the nature and abilities of heat
completely and thoroughly by 1976? Does heat really acquire forms or return
to forms or to other motions after it has reached this stage? Does rate of
vibration slow down?

But
we only know heat from an awareness of it. If this heat becomes too great,
our awareness does disappear. But when the universe becomes
all-heat-in-its-wastes, any possibility of further changes would be but a
transformation of this waste heat into useful heat and matter. If in
nature we can find a return of heat motion into its other levels, into
masses, into consciousness, into beings and into elementary particles, the
idea of cyclical evolution of the universe can be understood. This is not
easily perceptible completely, thus, contributing to the difficulty of our
investigation. My conscious mass at present does not possess the fine
ingredients for a thorough understanding of this potential transformation.

10
The psychic
center activities always generate a certain amount of heat energy.
Unless we can ‘stop’ the motions, or regulate them harmoniously, our body
will not function properly. Normally, we cannot ‘stop’ the motions, but we can redirect them at will.

Behavior is that which
emerges out from the 4th dimension. There is always something
moving along the 4th dimension of any psychic material beings.
But we cannot really see it. This line is invisible to a foreign body, and
it is also invisible to us. In order to see it, we must practice
self-observation persistently, but only in us. Ultimately, we might sense
the existence of our own 4th dimension. In this dimension, we
can sense to our own self quietly and no one will know what we are sensing
at. But as soon as we materialize what we have sensed, they would be able
to see our inner dimension or a part of its motion.

11 These power-possessing
beings may try to control you. They can imprison your physical body, but
they cannot imprison your mind because it moves along the fourth dimension.
You can vibrate in a manner as to make yourself invisible to them or to
cause them not to destroy your psychical body.

Both the physical and the
psychical bodies are important. If they are seriously damaged, the being
will die. If the fourth dimension is developed, the degree of freedom will
increase greatly. This will improve mind penetration into denser matter and
into people’s thinking. Dangerous beings flow quietly along the fourth
dimension but we cannot really ‘see’ them unless we make an effort to see
them.

12The universe reflects its
own self. One region of the universe ‘sees’ the other region. For the
organic film the beings see one another. Beings at each level have its own
opposite types.

13Let us investigate this
reciprocal process. Just today this pupil of mine wonders why as the wheel
of a tractor turns forward it appear to turn backwards for a while, stop and
then turns forward again. This phenomenon is puzzling since we are to
relate that something called ‘light’ and that other thing called ‘shadow’ on
the grid of the wheel. The shadow turns forward but the eyes only focus on
the light behind the shadow. The dark is not seen by the brain but rather
the bright is. As the wheel turns everything becomes shadow. The
difference in light and shadow disappears in favor of shadow. Everything
now becomes normal and the wheel appears to move forward. My psyche is much
affected by the unsuspecting details of nature.

14 What do we mean by being
multi-dimensional? It means the ability to see and change approaches. It
means ‘seeing’ with Hitler’s eyes, Mao's eyes, Marxist’s eyes, Einstein’s
eyes, a mathematician’s eye, a politician’s eyes, a bourgeois’ eyes, an old
feudalist’s eyes, etc. This is not possible if we continue automatically to
‘see’ things in a one-dimensional manner, that is, only knows one kind of
psyche-gymnastics.

15How the Will of the
Absolute acts on the physical body, must be treated as a case for
study. ‘I’ move my limbs through issuing from the moving center. It is an
exertion of my will on the mechanical through the descending motion
to the lower levels that my limbs are supposed to be made for. But if
another person watches me, it is self-motion of physical beings or
psyche-directed motion of the physical body.

When we watch great nature, we ‘see’
precisely ‘self-motion’ of physical bodies, i.e. to say we should see the
work of mind centers within the higher dimensions pushing the physical along
or the physical is being mechanically push along. We cannot ‘see’ the mind
centers directly. We can only see the appearancial forms at the phenomenal
dimension in the mechanical, electrical, chemical and other processes. We
cannot directly see the various fine matters, however, we can feel their
presence. Any region of great nature that contains such fine vibrant
psychic matters can already be called mind centers.

Now returning to this
problem of ‘I’ move my limbs’, it implies and definitely means the
inevitable connection of higher motion with the lower motion, connection of
two qualitatively different levels of motions. Consciousness would be
motion at a plane, higher than electromagnetic motion (light is included),
but I am not thoroughly sure. It could-descend into electromagnetic motion,
into electric motion that in turn proceeds to the chemical and mechanical
level of motion. But consciousness is never equivalent to electromagnetic
motion.

Electro-chemical motion is
linked to emotional function; electromagnetic motion is linked to the mental
function; chemical motion must be associated with lower story function;
physical or mechanical motion with moving function. These are the possible
connections amongst various levels of motion and their connection with the
mind centers, both applicable to man and to the universe. We must also
observe these connections as ‘negation of negation’, which means reciprocal
intermingling of motions of the upper in the lower and of the lower in the
upper in the course of the descending and ascending motions respectively.

16 By the time the Will of the
Absolute reaches the earth, it will no longer be in its original form and
content but ratter in the form of light, heat, electricity, etc. That is,
it includes all those so-called causes of change, motion of our environment
and actions in us.